We leverage our state-of-the-art technology and data platform to capitalize on avant-garde research

We thrive on the intellectual curiosity, professional agility and singular commitment of our international team

A Leading Global Investment Management Firm

We are a global investment management firm that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns by utilizing a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets.

Experts in Trading, Technology & Operations

We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research.

A Technology and data driven firm

As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms.

Emphasizing true, Global Collaboration

With main investment offices in New York, London and Singapore, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

2000

We founded nQuant within Lehman Brothers Tokyo initially focusing on long/short equities strategies

The original founders actively lead Squarepoint today

2003 - 2004

nQuant founders move to Lehman Brothers New York

Future Squarepoint co-founders join as graduates

2005 - 2008

nQuant expands operations to Lehman Brothers London and operates as a global business

We diversify into low latency strategies

2008

nQuant team transfers to Barclays

2008 - 2010

nQuant reestablishes global operations within Barclays

EU & APAC operations are built from the ground up

2010

nQuant expands operations to Singapore

2011

We diversify into additional asset classes

2012 - Nov 2014

We negotiate and implement our spin-off from Barclays

We set up 6 offices worldwide

28 Nov 2014

nQuant trading winds down within Barclays

16 Dec 2014

Completion of spin-off: nQuant becomes Squarepoint and is entirely owned by its partners

Squarepoint acquires all nQuant employees, IP and assets

Squarepoint launches its first fund with the aim of replicating the nQuant business

Dec 2014

Our global trading operation is reestablished with connectivity to major equities, futures and FX exchanges

Oct 2015

Squarepoint launches its second fund.

Feb 2016

Squarepoint incorporates in Montreal, Canada

Apr 2017

Squarepoint launches its third fund.

2018

Squarepoint continues to expand the team and asset coverage worldwide while maintaining balance amongst the three regions

Feb 2019

Squarepoint launches its fourth fund.

Philosophy

We are committed to investing in ambitious professionals, scalable technology and comprehensive data sets.

We build and constantly improve a diversified and rigorously tested portfolio of systematic quantitative trading strategies that execute across global financial markets and asset classes.

We tackle new ideas with a critical mindset, challenging every result in order to avoid pitfalls. We prefer dead ends over misleading conclusions.

At our core, we are engineers, scientists and economists working together to generate wealth for our clients and firm.

We attribute our success to a diversity of ideas, attention to detail and strong competency in execution.

Culture

We pride ourselves on our avant-garde research and cutting-edge technology. To remain at the forefront of the industry, we emphasize the importance of education and team collaboration across our global network of offices. We push ourselves in a competitive but highly collegial environment because we excel at helping ideas become strategies, strategies become results.

Education is a priority for us and we infuse learning in all components of our business. From internships to mentoring, we construct our teams to succeed without borders, so that sharing and improving is constant.

At Squarepoint Capital, we value focus and hard work. We invest in people who are driven to achieve. We embrace diversity and promote balance. Ultimately, we are a company of dedicated people who strive for success and care about the process that gets us there.

Careers

Squarepoint Capital prospers within a truly global mindset. We provide our employees with the opportunity to have meaningful impact from any of our locations around the world.

Our management cultivates a collegial learning culture, which values mentoring, career development, and interaction between senior and junior staff.

We look specifically to recruit candidates who thrive in such an environment.

We expect every employee to contribute to the success of the firm. In turn, we believe we can offer career-defining opportunities.

Our functional teams:

Investment

Operations

Finance

Technology

Compliance

Human Resources

are designed to facilitate a worldwide decentralized organization, encouraging and rewarding our employees to work globally. The result is an exceptional learning experience in which knowledge is acquired and shared between teams and teammates, between the experienced and the untried.

We hire opportunistically and not just to fill vacancies. We are more interested in you than in your application for a specific job.

Experienced Professionals

Veterans of the quant investing space know Squarepoint Capital by our heritage and reputation. They recognize the firm’s established platform and the competency of our businesses. They recognize the value of the longevity of the management team.

These experienced professionals choose Squarepoint Capital because they know that their contributions will be respected and rewarded.

Recent Graduates

We encourage submissions for positions across all areas and locations.

Graduates with degrees in Mathematics or Applied Sciences, such as:

Statistics

Operations Research

Econometrics

Computer Science

Financial Engineering

Physics

are considered for investment and technology positions at Squarepoint Capital.

Beyond your academic proficiency, we look for strong communication skills, an ability to work well with colleagues across multiple regions, and the capacity to thrive under pressure.

The rewards for successful employees include global, cross-discipline opportunities. Working with us will define your career.

Internships

We welcome interns in our three larger offices: London, New York and Singapore.

As with our permanent hires, we look for candidates who are the right fit for our organization, intellectually and socially. We invest in the development of our interns as we expect them to contribute to the firm, especially over the long term.